Your kidding about the last picture, right? For a pro-women's rights organisation, to stage such a prestigious event in a country where there are practically no women's rights is a joke.

Not kidding at all. For one thing I appreciate traditional cultures and seeing a Western woman sitting with, and getting tips from, a Arabic carpet weaver rocks. On what you call "rights" (because women there have many rights, they're just different from the ones you like) cross-cultural interaction will only help.